Both SharePoint v3 (WSS v3 and MOSS 2007) SDKs have been refreshed for SP1 + a bunch of new content

[via Microsoft SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Blog]

Last week, in addition to the general availability of all the various 2007 Office System SP1 installs, the SharePoint developer team refreshed MSDN with a lot of updated and new content. The post on the MSFT SharePoint Developer Doc blog sums up all the new stuff. What I was real happy to see was the (1) new content on ASP.NET AJAX, the (2) updated section on building custom field controls, the (3) updated section on mobile control development and the (4) updated info on all classes that are involved in auditing. They also added some valuable best practice papers such as the disposable objects one. For you WCM folks, there wasn't a ton of new stuff specific to Publishing site development aside from the mobile control development and document converters.

The SharePoint documentation guys took quite a bit of heat early on (around RTW in late 2006) by the community at large. Since then the SDK has been a living organism. Those guys have been working real hard at adding & updating content over the last 12 months and it shows. There's a lot that goes into it and just know, there are some great people working very hard on it to give us developers the best experience possible. Don't like something? Instead of bitching about it, do something about it! Then go bitch about it and blog it on your own blog, pointing to your new content. :) Go straight to the page in the SDK on MSDN you think needs to have more content and add it yourself using the community contribution wiki at the bottom of the page! Nothing beats collaborative help! Here's a great example by my bud Randy, the MossMan, who added some extra info to a page he think needed some help.

No word yet on when we'll see updated CHM's available for download. That's the primary way I use the SDKs since the experience is just so much faster and who's got the patience to use that dang Internet thing anyway. :)

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posted on Saturday, December 15, 2007 11:47 PM

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# re: Both SharePoint v3 (WSS v3 and MOSS 2007) SDKs have been refreshed for SP1 + a bunch of new content 12/15/2007 11:48 PM AC [MVP MOSS]

Before someone gives me grief about doing a "me-too" post like I complained about in November with VS2008, but apparently did the same thing in some eyes with my Office 2007 [Client|WSS|SharePoint] SP1 post last week, well you may think this is another. What irked me about all the VS2008 posts was that there were a TON of "it's on MSDN, go get it now" but offered nothing else. Plus, virtually everyone seemed to already know what was coming in VS2008... but not so much in SharePoint SP1... nor with the dev docs. The main reason behind my SP1 post last week was that I thought the MSFT message about availability was a bit confusing... where do you find everything? A lot of the posts out there were doing the same thing... just pointing to the news post. So that post was more for my personal journal than anything. This post... well... I had some stuff I wanted to add. :)

# re: Both SharePoint v3 (WSS v3 and MOSS 2007) SDKs have been refreshed for SP1 + a bunch of new content 12/16/2007 1:30 PM The Mossman

Yeah, the comments section of the sdk is one of the most useful things. Usually if you try an example from there and it doesn't work... if there are no comments on the sdk already about which line needs to change, usually you can assume its something YOU are doing wrong ;)

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